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Bussr Joins BMW Foundation and MIT Global Sustainability Initiative SINGAPORE, June 26, 2021 - (ACN Newswire) - Singapore-based transport disruptor Bussr is joining the BMW Foundation and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to participate in their global mobility and sustainability initiatives. The initiative will kick start with a global workshop panel of cross-sectoral leaders on June 23. The global workshop will "Explore how digital and socio-ecological transformations will change the ways in which humans interact with civic and social mobility, within the existing infrastructure a...

Vitable raises $5.5m to drive at-home disruption in vitamins Share Vitable, an online business that sells personalised packs of vitamins direct to consumers, raised $5.5 million from investors including Rocket Internet that helped build The Iconic into an online fashion powerhouse. Co-founder Larah Loutati said the funds would be used to accelerate growth in Australia and step up expansion offshore, including a push into more countries in the Asia-Pacific region. Ms Loutati said customer numbers had increased tenfold in calendar 2020 off a low base and were rising at a double-digit rate month...

Why Moonpig's boss ditched Goldman Sachs for greetings cards The son of Ugandan refugees, Nickyl Raithatha swapped banking for a more unusual path Credit: Jeff Gilbert Nickyl Raithatha’s rapid ascent to become the boss of a £1.6bn listed company at the age of 38 is largely down to two things: a book and a retirement party. In his early twenties, the chief executive of online card seller Moonpig read The 100-Year-Life, which advocates having several careers in your lifetime. Around that time, he was also invited to a farewell reception for a partner at Goldman Sachs, Raithatha’s first em...

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Vertical Aerospace, developer of the VA-X4 eVTOL aircraft (earlier post), announced investments from American Airlines, Avolon, Honeywell and Rolls-Royce, who have invested in the PIPE and are part of Vertical’s strategic partner ecosystem; Microsoft’s M12, 40 North and Rocket Internet SE have also invested in the business. Commercial partnerships and...